Improvement in button-hole cutter



INVENTon.

WITNESSES. M

N PEIERS, PHOTLLLJTHOGRAFMER, WAS

diluted 51am me eine.

Letters Patent No. 107 ,332, dated September 13, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these' Letters Patent and making part of the same v To. all whomt-it may concern Be it known that I, TALMON Gnmronn BUSH, ot' New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Button-hole Cutters; and I do hereby declare the following to'be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in whchv Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the side of the.

same.

Figure 3 is a sectional elevation, at right angles to fig. 2.

My invention consists in a cutter, formed from a single piece of steel, with four or more cutting-blades, and mounted between guard-plates, so that only one ofthe several bladeswill be exposed at the same time, and the whole mounted in a handle convenient ladies work-box or drawer.

That others may fully widerstand its construction and operation, I will particularly describe it.

A is the cutter, composed of any convenient or desirable number of cutting-blades, formed from a single plate of steel, in the manuel' shown. The cuttingblades are made -with different lengths of edge, so' that they may be used to out different sizes of but-lonholes. v

l? B are the guard-plates, each formed with -a tang for the v to be inserted in the handle C, by means of which the implement is used.'

The blade A is mounted, between the guard-plates B I5, upon the pin D, in such a manner that only one shown in the drawing.

The pin D is flattened at the point where the cutter rests upon it, and the perforation through which it passes is made to correspond in form, asshown at d,

be rotated also.

A head, E, is put lirmly upon the ena of the pin D, for the purpose ot' rotating the blade whenever it may he desirable to expose one or another'cutter, and a thumb-nut, F, clamps all the parts together when the proper cutter has been placed in position.lv

Having thus described my invent-ion,

What I claim as new. is-

A button-'hole cutter, constructed with a number of cutting-blades, of various widths, formed from a single plate of metal, A, revolving between the guards B, and secured substantially in the manner described, sotbat same time.

".l. C. BUSH. [rn 5.] Witnesses:

EDWARD A. WEED,

LEWIS UPHANLl ot' the cutting-edges will be exposed at'one time, as i tig. 2, so that, as the pin D is rotated, the blade A will one vonly of said cutting-edges 'shall be exposed at the 

